Back to Event List Pearl & The Oysters Sat, Aug 22 Doors: 8:30 pm | Show: 9:00 pm All Ages Please note - there is a delivery delay set for 2 weeks prior to show. Buy Tickets Share + Google Calendar Related Events Kelly McFarling Jul 2 Buy Tickets Chinese American Bear Jul 19 Buy Tickets Artists Pearl & The Oysters Pearl & the Oysters, international adventurers in eclectic pop, crash-landed their starship in Los Angeles in the year 2020. Born and schooled in Paris, the couple launched a nomadic romance fueled by music that would later see them crooning in New York jazz clubs, then wading the swampy waters of American DIY art rock in Gainesville, Florida. Today in L.A., the band's evolving sound complements a buoyant moment in a scene where their brand of space age jazz-pop is more than welcome. Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack met on the first day of high school in Paris - bespectacled Juju and curlyhaired Jojo, both music-obsessed, nerdy, and drawn together by a "poetic connection" and mutual heroes unusual for high schoolers, like Burt Bacharach, Kurt Weill and especially, Antônio Carlos Jobim. "It's very French of us to be into Brazil, but like, 1960s-French," said Joachim. "When we were kids, it wasn't that cool." At college, pursuing musicology degrees at the Sorbonne, a romantic connection emerged. Today, Juliette and Joachim's shared journey as love partners and music-makers gifts listeners with a rare experience in pop music - the output of a near-telepathic musical language grown over decades of 24/7 connection and collaboration. But back in school, each struggled for the respect of their academic music mentors. Of Joachim, Juliette said "You were studying classical composition in the conservatory where Debussy and Ravel were schooled. And the teachers wouldn't understand why you would do pop music on the side." But the "eternal schoolboy," as Joachim self-describes, dedicated years to the study of his hero Jobim, the eventual subject of a PhD dissert